There are many ways to automate the process of setting up and configuring a box. For whatever reason, if our whole system at this point comprises of just a single box, setting up a full SCM (Software Configuration Management) infrastructure is overkill. Shell scripts are one option, but we could also use a stripped-down version of SCM which is available in a few of the tools out there. Chef is one of the popular options and "chef-solo" is Chef's standalone configuration mode where we don't requi......